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Bookseller (British, bearded, bespectacled, bald). Fantasy-fan. Sci-Fi guy. Word-nerd. He/Him. On a mission to read all the middle-grade science fiction books.
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Just binged all 3 seasons of Mr. Inbetween on Disney+ this week. What an amazing series. As good as it was I hope they never make another episode, because the final shot of the final season was just perfection. 😙👌

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It's the moment you've all been waiting for...

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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Fast-forward 2000 years....

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The BFS is excited to announce our first in-person Leeds event, A Conversation on Character. Tuesday 11th March 2025, 7pm (GMT). Waterstones, Albion Street, Leeds. A Conversation on Character Ticket here: tinyurl.com/characterleeds

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

If you'd asked me which of these two sets of cover designs were the self-published POD editions, and which were the forthcoming trad-published editions soon to be available in all good bookshops, I think I'd have got the answer completely wrong! Not judging, just fascinated as ever by such things.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

At some point BlueSky has to pivot to the "actually make some money" phase of its operation, whether via advertising or subscription services, and I worry that people are going to completely flip out when it does.

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My immune system: These throat cells are infected! PURGE THEM WITH FIRE! Me: Ow! My body: The throat is burning! DEPLOY THE MUCUS! Me: *Aggle* My body: The airway is blocked! TRIGGER THE COUGHING REFLEX! Me: *wheeze* My body: BURN! SLIME! COUGH! Me: Guys you're killing me here!! 🤒

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Hello lovely people of Bluesky! My name's Michelle and I'm the owner of B For Butterfly Books, a small independent bookshop based in Sale, Greater Manchester. I'm hoping this will be my 'forever-social-media-home' after lots of channel-hopping 😁

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Holed up in my pit with a dose of the 'flu, just in time for my week off work. 🙄 Negative on COVID so far. Any other time the repeated frisson of chills cascading from my shoulders to my lower back might be pleasant, but combined with aching muscles, a cough & a bad head, no. 🥶

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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

submitted 37 days ago • 326 comments

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make.

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Let's have some fun tomorrow. Come hang out with me, Eliane, and Ed as we talk books! I've never hosted before so we're gonna have a GREAT TIME. tinyurl.com/clubcontango @elianeboey.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

First Wordlefail in a long time. Wordle 1,310 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Me, trying to convince my colleague that Deep Impact is a good movie: "Deep Impact is to Armageddon, as Contact is to Independence Day." My colleague: "Yeah, I didn't like Contact either."

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I'm really tempted by the upcoming Criterion 4K dual-edition of Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources, except for the fact that they've called the second movie "Manon of the Spring", which really grates. 😣 It's not even in the plural!

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I'm not a huge David Lynch aficionado, but he did make one of my all-time favourite movies, even if it wasn't one of his all-time favourites. Sad news.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant. Thanks Google. 😄

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Today I found out that The Stripper theme (BADA BA BAAA, etc.), rather than being some old-timey vaudeville music-hall classic, was in fact only composed in 1958.

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